What kind of electricity is lightning?
After some time, the teacher claimed that the answer was that lightning is static electricity because she looked it up on the internet. So, I decided to look also, here is what I found searching for...
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Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure
Networks that are resilient on their own become fragile and prone to catastrophic failure when connected, suggests a new study with troubling implications for tightly linked modern infrastructures....
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What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a...
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Onset of Electrical Resistance Measured for First Time
Using a fast-pulsing laser, physicists have recorded the first moments of electrical resistance, the friction that generates heat as electricity travels through circuits.
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Spray-on Rechargeable Batteries Could Store Energy Anywhere
A team of mechanical engineers has published a paper demonstrating its latest invention -- spray-on rechargeable batteries that could be combined with solar cells to create self-sufficient, energy...
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Electric Bugs: New Microbe Forms Living, Deep-Sea Power Cables
The world's deep seafloors are dark and airless places, but vast swaths may pulse gently with energy conducted through a type of newly discovered bacteria that forms living electrical cables.
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Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century
Electricity has a strange place in the annals of medicine. Since ancient times, electric cures have been pursued and promoted by earnest scientists and profiteering quacks alike. The devices in this...
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